AUSTRALIA have handed Middlesbrough striker Scott McDonald another chance but there is no place for former Liverpool player Harry Kewell in their 18-man squad to face Wales next week.

McDonald was cut from the Socceroos squad on the eve of the last World Cup and has gone 24 games without scoring for his country, but gets another chance, while Kewell is absent while he tries to sort out his club future.

Captain Lucas Neill, who is also yet to secure a club, is named to lead the squad, while Mark Schwarzer and Tim Cahill, who missed the two friendlies against Serbia and New Zealand, are back in the fold.